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Many employers are confused about whether they're doing "enough" to meet their psychosocial safety obligations, but according to a workplace culture specialist it's better to focus on what could be done next.

Recent roundtable discussions, with HR leaders in organisations with a variety of risk profiles, indicate that most are "grappling with the same types of issues", says Bendelta leadership and change practitioner Kirsty Harvison.

These conversations mostly involved Victorian employers, ahead of that State's regulations being introduced later this year, but their concerns reflect many of those that HR Daily anecdotally hears are expressed in organisations that have had to comply for some time.

According to Harvison, there's widespread understanding among employers that the way work is designed and managed needs to shift, but also widespread uncertainty about exactly what that means...